 | Jonathan Edwards - 1821 - 472 pages
...might have an undoubting hope and full joy in an assurance of their future glory. Heb. vi. 17, 18. " Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto...heirs of promise the immutability of his. counsel, comfirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - 1821 - 392 pages
...thereby given them two immutable things to rely upon. The apostle has reasoned thus upon the subject: " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself: for men verily swear by lhe greater: nnd an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife.... | |
 | 1849 - 700 pages
...instance to which the Apostle here refers, is the " oath which was sworn to our father Abraham." " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." The record is found in Genesis xxii. 1C, " By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord." But this is not... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself; saying, Surely, blessing, I' will bless thee ; and multiplying, I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inkerit the promises, For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, be sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1822 - 472 pages
...shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, he confirmed it by an oath"." And " because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself," saying, " By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1824 - 428 pages
...still farther established, from what the writer of the epistle to Heb. saith (chap. vi. 13, 18.) " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee, and so after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise ; wherein God willing more abundartly... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...That ye be not slothM, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after... | |
 | 1832 - 590 pages
...God, and to take effectual care of them through their pilgrimage here on earth. The aposlle says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely in blessing I will bless thee ; and so after he had patiently endured,... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...Matt. xxiv. 35. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful : he cannot deny himself, 2 Tim. ii. IS. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater... | |
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 
